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Set 182 of 246 / Words 1449-1456 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1Tournament rules give the chief judge final authority over assistants' decisions. She reverses an assistant's disqualification after reviewing the record. Which statement fits overrule?A. A spectator overrules the decision merely by privately disliking it.B. The chief judge overrules the assistant through her superior authority.C. The assistant overrules the decision by repeating it unchanged.D. The scorer overrules the decision by entering it exactly as announced.

2In a contract-dispute story, the parties privately postpone a coffee meeting. No tribunal suspends the case or its enforcement. Why should an editor avoid calling that change an official stay?A. The parties' coffee plans prove that the tribunal has already decided the contract dispute.B. Every postponed private meeting automatically suspends the associated legal case.C. A stay means any delay of any activity, regardless of official status, in the specified legal sense.D. An informal scheduling decision does not establish an official suspension of a proceeding or enforcement.

3An invented college issues a written decision reducing a student's outstanding workshop fee from the full amount to one quarter. In the sense of an obligation, what has occurred?A. A valuation that leaves the amount owed unchanged.B. A finding about a medical condition, even though the decision concerns only a fee.C. Partial remission of the fee.D. An increase in the original obligation.

4A fictional rental agreement distinguishes reimbursement of documented cleanup costs from an additional charge expressly imposed to punish deliberate damage. Which part is punitive?A. The return of an unused deposit with no penalty attached.B. The documented reimbursement solely because money changes hands.C. The additional charge intended as punishment.D. The inventory list that records the room's furnishings.

5A novel explicitly states that an electrical fault accidentally ignites an empty shop. A summary calls the event arson without adding any new facts. Why is that label unsupported?A. An electrical source automatically establishes a person's unlawful intention.B. Arson requires deliberate unlawful burning, which the described accident does not establish.C. The shop's being empty proves that no property was burned.D. Arson means every fire that damages property, whether deliberate or accidental.

6In a comedy, a student claims a prank was spontaneous. A dated rehearsal plan written a week earlier describes the prank and assigns roles. What does the plan support?A. Planning the prank proves that its result matched every expectation.B. The prank was premeditated rather than invented at the moment it occurred.C. The prank could not have involved any prior consideration.D. Every participant must have known every detail, even those absent from the plan.

7Two neighborhood groups join forces to request a shared tool shed. One group's minutes call the other a confederate in the campaign. What does the term imply here?A. An opponent working to defeat the tool-shed request.B. Proof that the other group secretly committed a crime.C. A neutral observer who takes no part in the campaign.D. An ally joined in a shared purpose.

8A comic narrator says the broken printer became his alibi for missing a newsletter deadline, although it says nothing about where he was. Which sense is being used?A. A formal finding that every missed deadline was justified.B. A supported account that he was elsewhere when an alleged crime occurred.C. A promise that the printer can never fail again.D. The broader sense of an excuse for his failure to finish on time.

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